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Scottish-headquartered timber business BSW has acquired the building and supply solutions division of Stoke-on-Trent-based SCA Wood UK, which includes the manufacture and distribution of timber and associated products to the home improvement and builders merchant sectors. The move heralds the beginn

Former colleagues with experience of leading successful affordable housing projects have teamed up to form a new architecture practice in Edinburgh. Architect and managing director Stuart Bishop has officially launched SB Architects, a team comprised of a very experienced group including ex-col

A socially distanced topping-out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £28 million Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh.

Plans for an ambitious £300 million onshore wind farm have been unveiled by Banks Renewables in a scoping report submitted to South Lanarkshire Council.  At 300MW generating capacity, the wind farm would be the UK’s third-largest by electricity generated. 300MW is enough to meet the

East Renfrewshire Council’s housebuilding project has continued in Barrhead with the progression of work at its Balgraystone Road development.

Juniper Residential, the new age-exclusive living brand of the Cruden Group, has officially unveiled two new developments in Scone and Kinross, comprising 92 properties for over-55s. The developments mark the first of several in the pipeline for the new company.

South Lanarkshire Council has revealed it remains on target to deliver 1,000 additional council homes. A report updating councillors on the Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) has confirmed that despite the complete shutdown of construction forced by the pandemic lockdown the ambitious new buil

Caledonia Housing Association has begun construction of 21 homes for social rent in Milton of Leys, south of Inverness, with the properties due to be ready by September 2021.

Parts of a former Brechin school have been used in the construction of new affordable homes in a nod to the town’s history.

SELECT, the campaigning body for the electrotechnical sector in Scotland, has chosen not to increase subscription rates for 2021, in a further move to help Members cope with the financial challenges caused by COVID-19.

The Edinburgh-based creator of the world’s first flat-packable solar thermal collector has been accepted onto the new accelerator programme at the Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc (MSIP) in Dundee, as it rolls out an ambitious programme to provide affordable clean energy to some of the w

A civil and environmental engineering company is throwing its skills, expertise and experience behind plans by a green community group to turn three disused bowling greens into a community garden for local people to enjoy. Independent engineering consulting specialist Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA

East Dunbartonshire Council's housing stock has been boosted by the completion of a new affordable housing development at Kilmardinny in Bearsden.

Filming for David Walliams and Sheridan Smith's new 'Hansel and Gretel' drama was interrupted by noisy builders, forcing some reshoots.

Plans to create a stunning centrepiece to the University of Strathclyde campus have been passed by Glasgow City Council.